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Colonized compost question
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I threw an old cake all chopped up into a pot of compost, and it has probably been sitting for a month, today I went to just bury it in the ground and see what was up with it and when I dumped it out a big chunk slid out and it was 60% colonized, white and blue strands everywhere trying to colonize the outer layer, so I threw it in the ground and put light topsoil ontop of it...should I expect any growth?

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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: psychotikfuck]
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Yep, just keep it hydrated,you can pile foliage on top to hold moisture


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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: psychotikfuck]
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Probably not, sounds like contams to me. Did you pasteurize the compost before adding the cakes? Blue can also be bruising. Regardless, a month should have been enough to get 100% colonization. This is of course, unless you used a huge amount of compost compared to spawn. What was the ratio of cakes to compost?


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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: Pensacola]
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Pensacola said:
Probably not, sounds like contams to me. Did you pasteurize the compost before adding the cakes? Blue can also be bruising. Regardless, a month should have been enough to get 100% colonization. This is of course, unless you used a huge amount of compost compared to spawn. What was the ratio of cakes to compost?


lol, I used a good amount, in a small pot, the size of like  3 cakes, so like  3 cakes worrth of compost to one cake. It was a lot, so a month seems rational to me especially in the cold weather I have had here. It didn't look like a contam, looked like healthy myc.

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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: psychotikfuck]
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I hope someone reads this. since it is an old post now but I was just drinkina beer takin a piss outside ya know, the usual, and I look at the circle of dirt where I had been checking for pins since I buried the compost colonizing there, and there was nothing on the dirt, and then I realized there was TONS of caps, just clumps of them surrounding the circle of dirt i covered the compost with, and to be honest, they do not look like the ecuadors i harvested before from the cakes i threw in the compost, the stems are skinny, and the caps are less caramel, still caramel but like faded almost peach. Gills are black.    I have a cap drying out now, I am gonna break it in half and see if it bruises blue.

I mean why would mushrooms grow around the area i buried the compost in. Even if they were common mushrooms, what are the freakin odds they grow around the spot i try to recycle old cakes in.... and if it is my ecuadors why would they grow in clumps like that and skinny, and look totally different than when I grew them inside, and why would they not grow through the dirt but around it

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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: psychotikfuck]
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Obviously they colonized your compost and fruited. It's pretty cool, huh?

Outdoor fruits will always look different than indoor :thumbup:

Enjoy!


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Re: Colonized compost question [Re: FrankHorrigan]
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FrankHorrigan said:
Obviously they colonized your compost and fruited. It's pretty cool, huh?

Outdoor fruits will always look different than indoor :thumbup:

Enjoy!



yeah.... I am not sure I am going to enjoy them just yet... they just don't look like magic mushrooms to me!

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